Painter, especially of watercolours, and teacher. He was born in Caernarvon, served in the Royal Artillery, 1952–4 and attended Bangor Normal College in 1954–6, later teaching in Caernarvon, retiring in 1990. A member of WSW he showed at Arun Art Centre in Arundel, Albany Gallery in Cardiff, RBA and RWA. Won the Anfield and Everton Prize for Art in 1956; RCamA Saxon Barton Prize in 1961; and was a Royal National Eisteddfod prize-winner in 1974. Albany Gallery and National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, gave him one-man shows, including a 70th Birthday Exhibition at Albany, 2003, also Thackeray Gallery, 2000 and 2002. CASW holds his watercolour A Ferry in Scotland.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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